Price Indices

Data issued by the Department of Statistics on the wholesale trade prices indicate an increase in the wholesale trade prices Index for the first quarter of 2018 by 2.0% to reach 97.8 in 2018 compared with 95.9 during the same period in 2017. This was a result of an increase in the prices of the group “sale of motor vehicles and their parts and motorcycles” by 8.4% , this group has increased the index number by 1.56 percentage points, [...]

Data issued by the Department of Statistics on the wholesale trade prices indicate an increase in the wholesale trade prices Index for the fourth quarter of 2017 by 1.8% to reach 96.3 in 2017 compared with 94.6 during the same period in 2016. This was a result of an increase in the prices of the group “Sale of textiles, clothing and personal housing products” by 12.8% representing 1.3 percentage points, The group of “Sale of fuel, metals and construction [...]